Now the UK citizenship has a firmly cynical mind-set courtesy of Tony Blair I'm afraid the prospect of our military being involved in Reaper missions is never going to be popular. Execution style killings with inevitable collateral damage may be seen as a necessity by some but is a pretty poor form of warfare. Gallant it is not. However I'm sure it won't be long before we see our first DFC's - unless it's happened already?!
The fact that the Judge in this case (who I know to be a 'normal' bloke outside of working hours!) took a lenient view in his punishment should be indicative enough of the strength of feeling against the use of drones. You only have to 'read between the lines' of a lot of posters on here to assess where even those who have served queen and country feel about it!!